A company uses Amazon EC2 instances in its AWS account for several workloads. The company needs to perform an analysis to understand the cost of each workload. What is the MOST operationally…

The correct answer is C. Add cost allocation tags to each EC2 instance. Activate the tags. Using cost allocation tags is the most operationally efficient way to analyze costs for each workload. By applying tags to each EC2 instance (e.g., by workload, department, or project), and activating these tags in the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console, you can track and…

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A company uses Amazon EC2 instances in its AWS account for several workloads. The company needs to perform an analysis to understand the cost of each workload. What is the MOST operationally efficient way to meet this requirement?

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AMove the EC2 instances for each workload into separate accounts.
BUse a different EC2 instance family for each workload.
CAdd cost allocation tags to each EC2 instance. Activate the tags.
DUpdate any workload applications to publish usage data to a cost allocation database.

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Using cost allocation tags is the most operationally efficient way to analyze costs for each workload. By applying tags to each EC2 instance (e.g., by workload, department, or project), and activating these tags in the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console, you can track and filter costs associated with each workload in the AWS Cost Explorer or through the AWS Cost and

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